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  • 07 Mar 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat

A mid-November conference on consumer-driven health care attracted nearly two hundred providers of health-care services, technology, and information; government professionals; and insurance executives to the HBS campus for a two-day View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Health
  • June 2007 (Revised October 2007)
  • Case

Information Technology and Clinical Operations at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, F. Warren McFarlan and Julia Rose Adler-Milstein
Describes the history of clinical computing at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital and the development, since the 1996 merger to form the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, of an information system designed to support the delivery of patient care. The hospitals' CIO, John... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Product Design; Service Delivery; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Health Industry; Boston
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    Consumers, Corporations and Public Health (Oxford University Press, 2016)

    The public health footprint associated with corporate behavior has come under increased scrutiny in the last decade, with an increased expectation that private profit not come at the expense of consumer welfare.

    Consumers, Corporations, and Public... View Details
    • 2012
    • Chapter

    Mental Health in the Aftermath of Conflict

    By: Quy-Toan Do and Lakshmi Iyer
    We survey the recent literature on the mental health effects of conflict. We highlight the methodological challenges faced in this literature, which include the lack of validated mental health scales in a survey context, the difficulties in measuring individual... View Details
    Keywords: Conflict of Interests; Measurement and Metrics; Surveys; Analytics and Data Science; Ethnicity; War; Health Disorders; Body of Literature; Problems and Challenges; Bosnia and Hercegovina
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    • September 2021
    • Article

    Kidney Exchange: An Operations Perspective

    By: Itai Ashlagi and Alvin E. Roth
    Many patients in need of a kidney transplant have a willing but incompatible (or poorly matched) living donor. Kidney exchange programs arrange exchanges among such patient-donor pairs, in cycles and chains of exchange, so each patient receives a compatible kidney.... View Details
    Keywords: Kidney Exchange Programs; Matching; Health Disorders; Health Care and Treatment; Programs; Design
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    • September 2013
    • Article

    Converging to the Lowest Common Denominator in Physical Health

    By: Leslie K. John and Michael I. Norton
    Objective: This research examines how access to information on peer health behaviors affects one's own health behavior. Methods: We report the results of a randomized field experiment in a large corporation in which we introduced walkstations (treadmills... View Details
    Keywords: Information; Behavior; Decision Choices and Conditions; Health; Health Industry
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    • 01 Mar 2009
    • News

    Health care article stats

    p. 29 “47 million Americans who are currently uninsured” (U.S. Census Bureau) p. 30 “outlines of plan are simple” paragraph (Massachusetts Health Care Connector Authority) p. 30 “Health Care” sidebar (Cara Sterling, HBS Healthcare... View Details
    Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
    • April 2016 (Revised May 2016)
    • Case

    Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais, Partners In Health in Haiti

    By: Robert S. Kaplan, Bipin Mistry and Karla Bertrand
    The case describes the application of Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) at a new tertiary hospital, operated by Partners in Health in Mirebelais, Haiti. A project team mapped the clinical processes for use in estimating the direct costs of personnel,... View Details
    Keywords: Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Activity Based Costing and Management; Cost Accounting; Developing Countries and Economies; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Haiti
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    • 07 Mar 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Electronic Health Records Were Supposed to Cut Medical Costs. They Haven't.

      Despite the promise that electronic health records would cut billing costs, savings have yet to materialize, according to a major new study by researchers at Harvard Business School and Duke University. “The theory was that part of... View Details
    Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health
    • 01 Mar 2012
    • News

    Health Care’s New Frontier

    holistic health-care clinics for women became athenahealth, a $245 million enterprise that provides cloud-based practice management, billing, and electronic health record services to over 31,000 medical providers across the United States.... View Details
    Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Health, Social Assistance
    • Article

    The Information Technology Ecosystem: Structure, Health, and Performance

    By: Marco Iansiti and Gregory L. Richards

    A number of modern industries are organized as complex networks of firms whose integrated efforts are necessary to deliver value to end customers. The complexity of these networks, or business ecosystems, and the associated interdependencies among firms, make... View Details

    Keywords: Business Ventures; Networks; Value; Customers; Performance Productivity; Product; Applications and Software; Innovation and Invention; Competition; Business Model; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology Industry
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    • Web

    For Alumni - Health Care

    network around the world. The Association allows alumni to connect, interact, and exchange ideas in order to advance their professional development and ongoing learning. Past Events Feb 27 27 Feb 2025 A Conversation with Dr. Rochelle... View Details
    • Fast Answer

    Health care: consumer expenditure

    webpage also provides additional resources on the topic. Bureau of Labor Statistics - Consumer Expenditure Survey Provides information on the buying habits of American consumers, including data on View Details
    • 29 Jun 2012
    • News

    For businesses, Supreme Court ruling provides a measure of clarity in health care calculations

    • January 2016
    • Article

    Incorporating Longitudinal Pediatric Patient-centered Outcome Measurement into the Clinical Workflow Using a Commercial Electronic Health Record: A Step Toward Increasing Value for the Patient

    By: Kathleen Carberry, Zachary Landman, Michelle Xie, Thomas W. Feeley, John Henderson and Charles Fraser Jr.
    Patient-centered outcomes measurement provides healthcare organizations with crucial information for increasing value for patients; however, organizations have struggled to obtain outcomes data from electronic health record (EHR) systems. This study describes how Texas... View Details
    Keywords: Epic; Electronic Health Records; Outcomes; Value; Patient-Centered Outcomes Measurement; Value Creation; Information Technology; Health Care and Treatment; Customer Focus and Relationships; Health Industry; Texas
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    • 22 Apr 2014

    HBS Health Care Webinar

    This online information session will highlight the resources at HBS for students interested in pursuing a career in Health Care. There will be a brief presentation followed by a student panel discussion.... View Details
    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Financial and Informational Integration Through Oracle Networks

    By: Lin William Cong, Eswar Prasad and Daniel Rabetti
    Oracles are software components that enable data exchange between siloed blockchains and external environments, enhancing smart contract capabilities and platform interoperability. We find that oracle integration is positively associated with total value locked and... View Details
    Keywords: Decentralized Finance; Blockchain; Smart Contract; International Economy; Interoperability; Risk Sharing; Applications and Software; Financial Markets; Economics; Risk Management
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    • June 1994 (Revised February 1999)
    • Case

    Marcia Radosevich and Health Payment Review--1989 (A)

    Martha Radosevich, president of Health Payment Review, a small software start-up, confronts a serious cash-flow problem: Health Payment Review has built a PC-based prototype but has run out of funds to build a commercially acceptable mainframe product. As a stop-gap... View Details
    Keywords: Negotiation; Cash Flow; Entrepreneurship; Applications and Software; Sales; Information Technology Industry
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    • March 2020
    • Case

    Maven Clinic: Women's Health in the Digital Age

    By: Ariel D. Stern and Sarah Mehta
    In late 2017, Kate Ryder, the founder and CEO of digital women’s health telemedicine company Maven Clinic, faced an important decision. Maven offered both a direct to consumer (D2C) product that anyone could use to book virtual appointments with health practitioners... View Details
    Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Strategy; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Health Industry; Health Industry; United States
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    • 05 Sep 2000
    • What Do You Think?

    Whither the Information Economy?

    founder of Napster, would probably agree with the assertion. While Harlan Cleveland foresaw the dimensions of the Information Economy, what he may have underestimated was the ease with which information, proprietary or not, could be... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett